Suppose I create a new DC with 25 nodes. I have their IPs in cassandra-topology.properties. Twenty-three of the nodes start up, but two of the nodes fail to start. If I start replicating (via "nodetool rebuild") without those two nodes, then when those 2 nodes enter the DC the distribution of tokens to vnodes will change and I'd need to rebuild or bootstrap, right?
In other words, it's better to wait til all nodes come up before we start replicating. Does this sound right? I presume that all the nodes need to come up so it can learn the token ranges. Thanks, Don Donald A. Smith | Senior Software Engineer P: 425.201.3900 x 3866 C: (206) 819-5965 F: (646) 443-2333 dona...@audiencescience.com<mailto:dona...@audiencescience.com> [AudienceScience]
